Yahoo! Online Protection and Norton Security Online, the saga continues
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If you installed the new Norton Security Online through Yahoo! Online Protection (*koff koff*) only to discover it finds bugs but can't remove them and won't tell you where they are so you can remove them by hand, maybe you tried to uninstall with Yahoo!'s instructions only to discover that it didn't uninstall the Norton part of things, maybe you spent about twenty-four hours with a pounding headache and searching the Internet in vain while your eyelid twitches hard enough to launch tiddly winks across the room...this seems (so far) to do the trick:
Norton Removal Tool.
Click the link that says, "I have a Norton product that was purchased from my Internet Service Provider (ISP)."
No need to bother about the product key or whatever; you don't have one. If you wanted to reinstall this crap, you'd just re-download it from Yahoo. That might even be worth doing when they get it like, you know...working.
How will we know when that is? I suspect our first clue will be when we see frostbitten bats plummeting to the ground like licorice slushies, each wearing a souvenir shirt that says, "I vacationed in hell and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Your mileage may vary.
In related news, the free Comodo installed like a dream and the firewall set-up was a breeze. Now to run some scans see if the AV actually works. If I like it, I might give their spyware program a shot, too. (None of these are Vista ready yet.) Here's PC Mag's review.
If you installed the new Norton Security Online through Yahoo! Online Protection (*koff koff*) only to discover it finds bugs but can't remove them and won't tell you where they are so you can remove them by hand, maybe you tried to uninstall with Yahoo!'s instructions only to discover that it didn't uninstall the Norton part of things, maybe you spent about twenty-four hours with a pounding headache and searching the Internet in vain while your eyelid twitches hard enough to launch tiddly winks across the room...this seems (so far) to do the trick:
Norton Removal Tool.
Click the link that says, "I have a Norton product that was purchased from my Internet Service Provider (ISP)."
No need to bother about the product key or whatever; you don't have one. If you wanted to reinstall this crap, you'd just re-download it from Yahoo. That might even be worth doing when they get it like, you know...working.
How will we know when that is? I suspect our first clue will be when we see frostbitten bats plummeting to the ground like licorice slushies, each wearing a souvenir shirt that says, "I vacationed in hell and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Your mileage may vary.
In related news, the free Comodo installed like a dream and the firewall set-up was a breeze. Now to run some scans see if the AV actually works. If I like it, I might give their spyware program a shot, too. (None of these are Vista ready yet.) Here's PC Mag's review.